27 Bible Verses about The Sabbath And Christ

But when the Pharisees saw this they said to him, "Look, your disciples are doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath."

So the Pharisees said to him, "Look, why are they doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?"

But some of the Pharisees said, "Why are you doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?"

Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?

So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat."

But the president of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, "There are six days on which work should be done! So come and be healed on those days, and not on the Sabbath day."

A man was there who had a withered hand. And they asked Jesus, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?" so that they could accuse him.

So Jesus asked the experts in religious law and the Pharisees, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?"

They watched Jesus closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they could accuse him.

The experts in the law and the Pharisees watched Jesus closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they could find a reason to accuse him.

Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.)

Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

(Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.)

For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?" Thus there was a division among them.

Then he said to them, "Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath, or evil, to save a life or destroy it?" But they were silent.

Then Jesus said to them, "I ask you, is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil, to save a life or to destroy it?"

He said to them, "Would not any one of you, if he had one sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, take hold of it and lift it out?

Then the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from its stall, and lead it to water?

Then he said to them, "Which of you, if you have a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?"

But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath."

Then he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath.

For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath."

For this reason the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath."

Then he said to them, "The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath."

Therefore do not let anyone judge you with respect to food or drink, or in the matter of a feast, new moon, or Sabbath days --